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I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular.

I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.

Feeling better is not actually being better.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.

The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.

No amount of belief makes something a fact.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.